In which year did the United Nations officially recognise International Women’s Day?
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1945
1967
1977
1997
First woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics:
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Janet Yellen
Christine Lagarde
Elinor Ostrom
Esther Duflo
This country was the first to grant women the right to vote in national elections.
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United States
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Who wrote the influential feminist text “The Second Sex” in 1949?
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Virginia Woolf
Betty Friedan
Simone de Beauvoir
Gloria Steinem
This pioneering female scientist was denied the Nobel Prize, despite her significant contributions to the discovery of DNA structure.
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Marie Curie
Barbara McClintock
Rosalind Franklin
Dorothy Hodgkin
This female mathematician’s algorithms were used in the first electronic computer (ENIAC).
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Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Katherine Johnson
Emmy Noether
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
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Bessie Coleman
Amelia Earhart
Harriet Quimby
Jacqueline Cochran
Which of the following was the first country to be led by a woman?
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United Kingdom
United States
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Iceland
The first woman to win the Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics:
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Sophie Germain
Emmy Noether
Maryam Mirzakhani
Karen Uhlenbeck
Which international treaty, adopted in 1979, is often described as an international bill of rights for women?
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Geneva Convention
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action